I hate that this is true, but it looks like the LA Times (and others) is reporting that Arthur C. Clarke, father of HAL, the concept of modern communications satellites and countless sci-fi stories/books/movies is dead at age 90. I’ve always loved Sir Clarke’s work, and he’s the source of one of my favorite quotes (actually his third law - google it):

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

With his passing, the genre of science fiction looses one of it’s greatest creators and has been dealt a serious blow.

Links:

Los Angeles Times Article
Via Boing-Boing
Photo Credit: Anuradha Ratnaweera, anuradha on flickr.com, source
Arthur C. Clark on Wikipedia.org

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